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Add term limits for all elected and appointed federal positions, all single issue bill must be posted for public viewing for at least 7 days before a vote, and no appointee can hold any position of authority without senate confirmation (anti czar bill). Hard to argue against a platform like that.
My simple solution?
I refused my last promotion to an exempt position, instead staying a technician. I do engineering level work, with engineering responsibilities, but technician pay. Thing is, while my "per hour" may be lower, my total pay is nearly the same, because engineers are "always on" and I get OT.
Further I can bail after 8 hours and no one can bitch about it. Overall it's a better deal than people realize. Once my kids get older I may take a promo, but not till then.
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Same here. I'm in an engineering position, but stayed a technician to avoid the whole salary issue. I don't mind putting in a little over time here and there when its needed. My specialties are industrial tech, robots, PLC's, CNC's and so on. One things that I get iron clad in my employment contract is Called/Call In pay. Basically what it works out to is that if my employer has to call me on my time, it cost them 2 hours pay. It doesn't matter if I've got the issue fixed in 5 minutes, I get paid 2 hours. If I have to come to the plant, it cost them 4 hours plus my time there. Its a great thing, means that I don't get bothered unless its important.
If I was salary, I'd lose that pay. And with the overtime I put in, I make more than the engineers who are working right along side me.
Destructible environments are my downfall. I have spent hours blowing everything I can up, just because.
The actual quote is "Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power"
Lets see, government take over of the banks, government take over the auto industry, treasury secretary empowered to take over any corporation who's failure my threaten the economy...
Nope, don't see it happening here.
Depends on what you mean by known obstacles. A fixed obstacle, maybe. That would be defined usually as an boundary in the work envelope and some systems can find there own way around them. Material handling systems, like an automated palletizing system, may have a support structure in the work envelope to work around. For the most part, its a good idea to keep the work envelope as free of obstructions as possible.
If its a mobile object, like part of a weld fixture, then no. If you tell the robot to move from point A to point B, it will try to move from point A to point B regardless of what is in the way. Its the programmers job to work the robot around obstacles.
I've been programming, repairing, and designing end effectors for industrial robots for about 10 years now. Here's a real quick and simple example of how robots make decisions.
When you program an industrial robot, you position the end effector in a particular point in space, program that point, then position the end effector in another point and then give it a command on how you want it to move there: straight line, arc, air cut, etc.
What I don't have to do is determine the speed and encoder count shift needed for each individual servo motor (axis) on the robot. The internal logic of the robot does that. On a standard 6 axis robot, it would take hours to program a single straight line if you had to program a path for each servo motor. I tried it in school once, never again.
If we could find a way to harness, market, and sell stupidity we could turn the economy around just by selling of DC. And we would still have California to go!
Wind power isn't cheap. The cost of maintenance on hundreds of generators over thousands of square miles alone spikes the cost. The most efficient wind farms only produce 41% percent capacity. I doubt you can find a place that the jet stream lingers over long enough to make this idea feasible even if it was cheap.
Sounds good in theory, doesn't work so well in practice. Unless you are of the "kill them all and let God sort'em out" school of thought.
Men who have the physical, mental, and emotional abilities to become special operators are few and far between. All American special forces branches are slightly undermanned, and there is no shortage of candidates. They are a great tool in our arsenal, but there aren't enough of them to constitute a main force.
Your only means of defense against a larger aggressor force is total annihilation. Which, in an blitzkrieg type of scenario, you're already to late. Threats that are never backed up only lead to bolder actions by the aggressor. That also doesn't take into account the political fall out of using nukes.
Air and ground combat supports each other. Having one without the other is a losing proposition.
I could - a 5000 pound, 600 horsepower luxocruiser that runs dual fuel - gas, and crushed hippies.
If it goes insanely fast, I'll have my pre-order in!
Sounds more reasonable than most new laws being proposed.
Most likely the latter.
I don't know where you are from, but i know that the school can't trump parental rights in most parts of the country.
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers.
One of the solutions to moon dust in probes was to keep articulating members inside a compartment. Wheels and speeds were designed to minimize the amount of dust thrown up. Neither is practical when talking about construction.
Second factor is mass of objects to be moved. A design that is built to manipulate ounces of mass doesn't work so well when scaled up for hundreds of pounds or tons of mass.
Get something to work in a desert environment, say Death Valley or the Chilean deserts, and then we can start talking about the moon.
It's a naive, domestic operating system without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
